Happy Father's Day, dads! For the rest of you, it's not too late to pick out a greeting card and a gift for Dad's big day on Sunday. Harvard Book Store general manager Carole recommends the new Alan Furst novel, Mission to Paris; Joseph Stiglitz's The Price of Inequality; and the fourth volume in Robert Caro's epic Lyndon Johnson biography.

Our summer warehouse sale is almost here! On Saturday, June 23 and Sunday, June 24 we'll open our Somerville warehouse once again for a weekend of good deals and unexpected finds. Click here for more information, including directions.

To celebrate Pride Month, local independent publisher Beacon Press has taken over our Publisher Focus window for the month. Beacon has been "Publishing with Pride since 1854," including the brand new Outlaw Marriages. (And doesn't the window look lovely on this almost-summer day?)

Lastly, you may have heard that Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust has recommended incoming freshmen read Kathryn Schulz's Being Wrong, a book that advocates embracing risk and failure as a necessary part of creativity. Although the book has been out of stock at the publisher, it's part of HarperCollins's new "Comprehensive Backlist Program" (see our press release in HBS In The News), which means we can print you a fresh copy on Paige, our print-on-demand machine. Order yours today!

'Til Next Week,Rachel

New on Our Shelves: The Latest in Fiction, Nonfiction, Scholarly Books & In Store Book Printing

Fiction

The Red House by Mark Haddon

$25.95 Doubleday, hardcover

Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister Angela and her family to join him for a week at a vacation home. Richard has just re-married and inherited a willful stepdaughter; Angela has a feckless husband and three children who seem alien to her. Told through the alternating viewpoints of each character, The Red House is a symphony of long-held grudges, fading dreams and rising hopes, tightly-guarded secrets, and illicit desires.

Nonfiction

Superman:The High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Heroby Larry Tye

$27Random House, hardcover

Legions of fans can recite the story of the child born Kal-El, scion of the doomed planet Krypton, who was rocketed to Earth as an infant, raised by humble Kansas farmers, and rechristened Clark Kent. From two-fisted crimebuster to über-patriot, social crusader to spiritual savior, Superman--perhaps like no other mythical character before or since--has evolved in a way that offers a Rorschach test of his times and our aspirations. In Superman, Larry Tye reveals a portrait of America over seventy years through the lens of that otherworldly hero who continues to embody our best selves.

Scholarly

The Black Revolution on Campusby Martha Biondi

$34.95 University of California Press, hardcover

The Black Revolution on Campus is the account of an extraordinary but forgotten chapter of the black freedom struggle. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, black students organized hundreds of protests that sparked a period of crackdown, negotiation, and reform that profoundly transformed college life. At stake was the very mission of higher education. Black students demanded that public universities serve their communities and that black colleges embrace self-determination and resist the threat of integration. Most crucially, black students demanded a role in the definition of scholarly knowledge.

Custom-made blank journals with your choice of three cover designs. Request your choice of cover in the comments field when ordering online, or visit Paige in person next time you're in the store!

Bargain Books

Bargain Books are new books at used-book prices. We have a limited number of copies of these titles, so if you see something that you're interested in, come in and check it out soon. To see more of our Bargain Books section, visit our Bargain Books page.

Culled from his three-volume Lectures on Physics and book Six Easy Pieces, also made up of physics lectures, Six Not-So-Easy Pieces is celebrated physicist and professor Richard P. Feynman's examination of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. These lectures delve into not only the complexity but also the beauty of Einstein's work, and explain his theories and discoveries in a clear and entertaining style.

A National Book Award finalist, this biography of one of the most cunning kings of ancient times details a life both complex and ruthless. Mithradates's quest to create an empire to rival, and subsume, Rome involved relentless warfare and his own creation of an antidote to all poisons, allowing him to avoid many assassination attempts.

One of the most influential and well known painters of the Northern Renaissance, Hans Holbein also excelled in jewelry making, stained glass, and woodcuts. This monograph features the extent of his work, from his tutelage under his father to the works he created for his patrons in Switzerland, to the paintings he did as Court Painter to Henry VIII.

Recent Finds Downstairs in the Used Book Department

Featured used books go fast, so if any titles interest you, stop in to check them out soon. We will hold the book if you are the first caller to reserve it. To reserve a book, call (617) 661-1515 and ask for our Used Department. We're also always looking for books to buy. Learn about selling your used books, including textbooks, here.

Believing and Seeing:The Art of Gothic Cathedralsby Roland RechtOriginally published by University of Chicago Press in 2008 $25 (hardcover) in Very Good Condition

Developments in medieval science that elevated sight above the other senses found religious expression in the Christian emphasis on miracles, relics, and elaborate structures. In his survey of Gothic art and architecture, Roland Recht argues that this idea of vision as a key to religious knowledge affected a broad range of late medieval works.

These extremely high-quality collections, which are very difficult to track down, include every single issue of the classic EC comics. Russ Cochran collected every published EC comic in the late 70s and early 80s and put them together in these comprehensive black-and-white volumes.

A Rose for Josef Sudek: 1896-1976by Josef Sudek and various authors Originally published by Belvedere of Prague Castle in 1996 $150 (paperback) in Very Good Condition

This monograph features the work of Czech photographer Josef Sudek. Anthony Tognazzini, of The Prague Post, described Sudek's photographs thusly: "Perhaps best known for the atmospherically romantic shots of his native city, Sudek has the remarkable ability to transform potentially cliched images . . . into dreamlike visions of enchantment."

We open our Somerville warehouse again, featuring a wide selection of Used, Bargain, and Collector's titles at spectacularly low prices!

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